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Hi folks, I am searching for the decal sheet that was included in the Revell 04235 Airbus A330-300 kit, Aer Lingus + SN Brussels Airlines liveries. With all these "cottage industry" decal makers, I thought someone would want to get rid of the Revell decal sheet. Will pay, of course. Regards, Steven

Hi carioca, Thanks alot, exactly the drawing I was searching for. I saw your MD-11 conversion thread on Aviation Dream (great web site, too bad I don't speak Brazilian), truly impressive, it turned out into a beautiful model, and TAM's latest livery is very good looking. Thanks again, regards!

Hi folks, I am about to start a MD-11 conversion in 1/144, using the nice Airfix kit (yes I got the great Welsh vac kit but... too long to explain). I remember having read an article of a Brazilian member (here or on airlinercafe), featuring a drawing with dimensions explaining about the main differences between DC-10 and MD-11, mainly fuselage, fin and winglets. I tried the search function which returns only 3 posts not much related to these drawings. Any idea where I can get them? Regards, Steven

Hi Birmanclose and welcome to the forum! That's some serious job you're doing here, very promising, keep on the good work. That's quite funny because I started this evening the very same conversion, only difference is that I am working on the Airfix kit as I had no Revell DC-10 kit as donnor (except a KC-10 I'd like to spare). Just managed to extend the front fuselage left half. Then I thought about allowing myself a few minutes rest here and found out about your conversion... Did you rescribe the whole kit? Quite alot of work, impressive, what tool did you use?

Thank you guys, I already got the Flight A320 cutaway drawing Frank supplied, since it is said to be accurate (ribs and spars number) I'll work on this one. Thanks again!

Hi folks, I've been searching on the net for drawings of Airbus A318/319/320/321 wing structure, actually something that shows the placement of the ribs in the wings , horizontal stabilizers and fin. It doesn't need to be dimensionally accurate, I just need the overall location as soon as the number of ribs is correct. Anyone got that? Thanks in advance!

Okay, the nose section actually looks much better than on the first photos _which may have suffered from distorsion or whatever_, latest pics here (comparison between Revell and Zvezda fuselages, to me the Zvezda fuselage set wins clearly): http://www.airlinercafe.com/plug.php?e=gallery&f=1262

Hi folks, Okay, I admit, I was on ebay last night, I was after this 1/144 decal sheet released by Brasil Decal for Air Canada's A320 and featuring the Raptors c/s. I didn't want to bid higher than USD 20... the goddam decal sheet closed at USD 45 or something like that... sorry too high for me . Just wondering if this particular sheet is one of Brasil Decal's nice effort, in terms of printing quality, or the poor stuff? I have only 3 sheets from them (Qantas Nalanji Dreaming 747-300, Russian Il-96-300s and Gulf Air widebodies) and noticed that the 2 later sheets are obviously better when it

Latest photos here, at the end of the thread http://www.airlinercafe.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=4441 , the nose section looks indeed strange on both build up model and sprue photos but I admit photo distorsion could be responsible of that strange look. Good thing about Zvezda's kit, the landing gear strut angle (perpendicular on the Revell kit -> wrong), the nice looking engines (I like the separate exhaust cone and intake lip), the one piece wing/belly section and the, presumably and hopefully, petite Tu-154-like recessed details. The wing to fuselage attachment looks interesting. Too

True that it depends on where the kits were tooled, I even remember drooling over the A340 kit and again drooling when I read that Revell was to release the 747-400, at that time I didn't know about "external" tool makers and naively thought that Revell designed and tooled the kits they released so I was certain to see A340-kit technology in the 747-400 kit... boy I was dissapointed . I guess I should have said that the A340 and 767 kits started this habbit of Revell having "some" kits nicely tooled in Korea. Boy, these kits were tooled about 14-15 years ago but they're still 10 times better

Regarding the nose section, take a look at this photo http://www.airliners.net/photo/Thai-Airway...-642/1498446/L/ and held your taped A340 fuselage in the same position, something looks wrong with the front section tapering. It also lacks the flat surface englobing the two side windows (let's say we're speaking of the left half windshield, the A340 non-blended winshield forging is made of two flat panes, on containing the fixed windshield and its wiper and one other containing both sliding and fixed windows). Still a beautiful kit that won't be spoiled by these two "details".

Great kit ! I think the kit released just before the A340 was the Fokker 100 which, while nice, wasn't as detailed as the A340; I assume it's safe to say the A340 (or the 767?) was RoG's first "new generation" airliner kit, I mean here featuring petite and crisp recessed details, very detailed landing gears, full depth landing gear wells and quality moldings. Not sure but I think it was tooled in Korea. I've heard of many warped fuselage halves but mine were ok, one fuselage set perfect (almost straight top edge, lied perfectly flat on my dining table) and the other very slightly warped. Th

"Early" CF6-80A2s (early 767-200s): http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airborne-Ex...-281/0363544/L/, you will notice the shape of the intake and cowling which is slightly different (smaller diameter) but that's the exhaust cone which differs much notably (more bullet-shaped, less streamlined than on the "newer" CF6s) vs "Newer" CF6-80C2B7Fs (767-300s and late -200s): http://www.airliners.net/photo/American-Ai...3-ER/0829347/L/ and identical _to a modeler's point of view_ CF6-80C2B8Fs (767-400s): http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-L...2-ER/0257411/L/ vs identical _again to a modeler's p

Hi vc-10, yep early 767-200s had these "early" CF6-80A2s (which Revell may have tried to reproduce in their 767 kits?... it is true that the Revell engines look more like early CF6s) while 767-300s and late -200 had the "newer" CF6-80C2B7Fs that are, from a modeler's point of view, identical to those powering the 747-400. Hmmm, those Zvezda photos are indeed small but the engines, late CF6s, look very nice. And I read that, regarding the main landing gears, even the brake disc blocs and linkeage are provided, "Ã la Revell A330/A340". And the belly/wing-fuselage fairing looks to be much bette

You made a good point here, as I understand PW and GE "wingleted" 767-300s had to be certified separately and I don't see the small number RB211-524G/H 767-300s certified with the winglets, unless BA, Qantas and China Yunnan pay for it... Actually, I'm not that mad about the 767, Il-86 or Tu-154 (more on the DC-10, MD-11, 747 & 777 side), it's just that Zvezda did such a fine job when it came to tooling these kits, I've never seen such perfect fit of finer recessed details (especially on the Tu-154) on injected airliner kits, that's why I now have 6 Il-86s, 4 Tu-154s and many many 767s wa